Academic concepts about EU foreign policy and the European Neighbourhood Policy are not always enough to explain what is going on in the region.
The current crisis unfolding in Ukraine has brought the issue of nuclear weapons back into sharp focus.
President Putin’s special envoy to the Urals, recently praised the region’s farmers for their heroic efforts to save the harvest. But it won’t save them.
Amendments to Russia’s new media law limiting foreign ownership to 20% show there is no free market in the country.
Having been accused of misappropriating hundreds of millions of dollars, Gulnara Karimova is now under house arrest in Tashkent; one more indication of the schism that is splitting the ruling family.
В мае 2012 года Президент РФ Владимир Путин пообещал увеличить расходы на здравоохранение. Спустя два года правительство, напротив, сокращает расходы на медицинское обслуживание населения, но траты на оборону оставляет прежними. in English
In 2012, President Putin promised to increase the healthcare budget. Two years later, the Russian government is cutting back. But not on the defence budget… на русском языке
Looking at both the historical and current pro-Putin segment of German public discussion, one can identify the target groups and methods of Russian disinformation politics
In Kazakhstan, a local court has ordered compensation to be paid to the ‘victims’ of a poster showing Russian national poet Alexander Pushkin kissing the Kazakh national composer Kurmangazy. на русском языке
Российские власти регулярно обвиняют Запад в русофобии. В этих обвинениях есть доля правды, однако реальное положение дел куда сложнее.
The Russian government likes to regularly accuse the West of being ‘russophobic.’ They’re right, but not for the reasons they think.
For Wilson, two men – Vladimir Putin and Viktor Yanukovych – bear the main brunt of responsibility for Ukraine’s crisis.
